Thomas Loosemore married Elizabeth Gertrude T Zeale in Barnstaple Q2 1891 vol 5b page 834. Although her age in 1901 would indicate a birth year of 1863 in fact I believe Elizabeth Gertrude T Zeal was born in Barnstaple Q3 1869 vol 5b page 469. In 1871 the family are working on the family farm at Croyde.

In 1881 the family are living on the outskirts of Croyde where her father Edwin is farming 40 acres. The family comprises mother Elizabeth three sons and three daughters.

In 1891 Elizabeth is working as a kitchen maid at Winswood House, Park Road in Crediton. This is about 400 yards along Mill street from Blagdon Place where the Loosemore family were living at the time and almost opposite Hubert Cottage where she and her husband were to set up home by 1901.

After their marriage in 1891 and before the census was taken in 1901 Thomas and Elizabeth now using her middle name of Gertrude have settled in Thomas’s home town of Crediton where he is running his own haulage business.

Thomas Loosemore died age 73 on 29/05/1934 in Crediton Q2 1934 vol 5b page 460. Elizabeth is buried in the churchyard of Crediton Parish Church. I have not located a headstone for her husband Thomas but Probate was granted on 7th August 1934.

Herbert Maurice Loosemore 1907 – ????(1st cousins 2 times removed)

Herbert Maurice Loosemore was born in Crediton Q3 197 vol 5b page 364. Herbert was the tenth child of
Thomas and Elizabeth who actually had 14 children of whom only 8 survuved childhood. He married Lily M Wills in 1934 and they had a daughter
Margaret M Loosemore who was born in 1935. She married Ernest W Parr in
1958 and they had three children. David W Parr 1960, Michael S Parr 1962 and Vivienne E Parr 1965.As at the time of writing Margaret and her husband Ernest are living close to the Parish Church in Crediton.